More daycare options at a variety of price points, all of them unaffordable.
A super accessible subway station with an elevator that will get you all the way down to the mezzanine. The tracks are just two flights of stairs below that.
Playgrounds that are so packed you’ll wait in the bathroom line for forty-five minutes. That’s how much kids love our jungle gyms. Please bring your own toilet paper.
Restaurants with kid-friendly meals that considerately still charge adult prices, so you get both experiences. Bet you’ve never tried twenty-four-dollar buttered noodles before.
Completely adequate public schools. As in, most of the kids are vaccinated.
Enough minivans with “honors student” bumper stickers that you can be confident that Harvard recruiters will visit every fall. Saves you a trip. Your child is two, but still.
A booming waiting room at the pediatrician’s office. This is a great way for your child to make friends and also get the flu. Immunity Power!
All the city’s best retail stores: Macy’s, H&M, Target, Ann Taylor. Uniqlo, another Target.
